Create Distributed Port Groups for Witness Traffic

Create a distributed port group for each availability zone on the vSphere Distributed Switch.
  1. Log in to the vSphere Client.
  2. Click
    Menu
    Networking
    .
  3. Right-click the vSphere distributed switch for the cluster and select
    Distributed Port Group
    New Distributed Port Group
    .
  4. Enter a name for the port group for the first availability zone and click
    Next
    .
    For example,
    AZ1_WTS_PG
    .
  5. Change the VLAN type to
    VLAN
    and enter a VLAN ID.
  6. Select
    Customize default policies
    and click
    Next
    .
  7. On the
    Security
    page, click
    Next
    .
  8. On the
    Traffic shaping
    page, click
    Next
    .
  9. On the
    Teaming and failover
    page, modify the failover order of the uplinks to match the existing failover order of the management traffic and click
    Next
    .
  10. On the
    Monitoring
    page, click
    Next
    .
  11. On the
    Miscellaneous
    page, click
    Next
    .
  12. On the
    Ready to Complete
    page, review your selections and click
    Finish
    .
  13. Repeat these steps for the second availability zone.